Software Engineering Executive Director

Job-:
Information Technology

Location:

Jersey City, NJ, United States;
Dallas, TX, United States

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Salary Range:
Executive Director-,000-USDFeatured Opportunities:
No

FLSA Status:
Exempt Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).The Impact you will have in this role:

The Executive Director, Software Engineering will lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and operational performance of technology platforms supporting DTCC's Fixed Income business. This leader will oversee globally distributed engineering teams responsible for strategic modernization and public cloud migration of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) technology platforms and services.

The role combines accountability for mission-critical production services with a transformational agenda focused on cloud adoption, platform modernization, resilience, security, and engineering excellence.

What You Will Lead:

FICC Cloud Migration End-to-end migration planning and execution across FICC applications, including real-time engines, batch processes, web platforms, data stores, messaging, reporting, and shared services.

Application-level roadmaps, migration waves, dependency management, environment readiness, testing, production parallel, cutover, stabilization, and legacy platform retirement.

Formal synchronization with the parallel functional delivery track at strategic milestones to reconcile code, configuration, data, interfaces, and release dependencies before cloud go-live.

Target-State & Platform Alignment Ensure migration designs and implementation decisions align with the enterprise target-state vision, approved architecture patterns, platform engineering standards, and non-functional requirements for performance, resiliency, security, and observability. Drive the adoption of cloud-native and service-based architectures that support scalability, operational readiness, and long-term sustainability. Reduce technology risk through vulnerability remediation, modernization, and the retirement of legacy platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and execute the FICC cloud migration strategy, integrated roadmap, delivery plan, and measurable outcomes across the application portfolio.

Partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Business leaders to deliver strategic outcomes.

Drive engineering standards, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.

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